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...stride jauntily onstage carrying ordinary metal folding chairs and proceed to use them as partners? But that is what they do in Choreographer and Performance Artist David Gordon's clever new work--his first ballet ever --called Field, Chair and Mountain, and audiences on A.B.T.'s current national tour cheer them on at every performance. In a New York City Ballet premiere last week, Jerome Robbins created a sort of Day-Glo urban paradise in which dancers seemed to cavort almost weightlessly to the celestial scritterings and screakings of Steve Reich's Eight Lines...
...clean, paint, and redecorate, let alone locate, an apartment in New York within hours of arriving in the city? Will the parents of these wayward youths really remain quietly buried in the suburban depths of Sandusky, Ohio, while their children cavort across the streets of New York missing school, cheer leading practice and Sunday night dinner? And, to get right to the point, how much energy and ambition can we take? At every daunting obstacle these wonder kids hesitate picturesquely for a moment or two and then leap ahead and conquer. Hooray for the American success story. Hard work...
...incident typified the rousing reception accorded the Pope during the first phase of his twelve-day Latin American tour. The exchange, however, underscored a more important matter: John Paul was not just a barnstorming superstar generating good cheer, but a taskmaster issuing challenge upon challenge. When chants broke out in the stadium proclaiming the Pope to be Venezuela's friend, he ad-libbed, "Yes, I am your friend. Yes, I am a demanding friend...
...about those who attend Harvard. First, it shows that those at Harvard are a little behind the times in terms of their knowledge about the country's leading technological universities. Second, it shows that for some reason Harvard fans don't think enough of their own hockey team to cheer for them, but instead that they settle for cheering against the opposing team, the team's school, and the school's students. And third, as I wrote in a letter to Derek Bok, it appears that Harvard students have some funny ideas about the superiority of a Harvard degree...
...uncanny," says Shearson Lehman's Furniss. That rule of thumb has been right in 16 of the past 18 years. So when the San Francisco 49ers of the original N.F.L. trounced the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XIX on Jan. 20, Wall Street knew it had something to cheer about...